Roots and Recall’s founders, met with an historian in Newberry, S.C. recently, and we had a minute to reveal the extensive background research, used to link and correlate sites. This includes the S.C. Artisans Database, and vast numbers of digitized documents, maps and open source publications. Most users have little understanding of the information accumulated…

A group of individuals from across upcountry S.C. have been working both separately as well as collectively, to accurately outline, the travels of both CSA Pres. Jefferson Davis and that of his wife, Varina. Roots and Recall is the platform on which much of this data will eventually be shared through its Jaunt program. Thus,…

I am convinced Oliver W. Holmes statement, “houses hold on to those who have lived within their walls,” is indeed accurate and appropriate to this day. While recently visiting an old rural home, I put on my architectural forensics hat, and revealed to the current owners that indeed their old home held on to features…

Laurens County, as is most of S.C., is full of great architecture, history and heritage worthy of preservation. Several individuals in that region have spearheaded these efforts for decades, and saved invaluable resources, being freely shared with Roots and Recall. Long-term, Historian and Curator of Collections at the Laurens Library, Ms. Elaine Martin, graciously opened…

When Roots and Recall began, those of us involved posted many of our own family connections. Though I knew little of my Buice family history, tons of data has been uncovered and shared in the past few years, it is rather remarkable! Relations from different sections of the country, individuals who had allied materials, and…

History books are so important to our understanding of the changing economic, social and political landscape of our region. In the 1960s, several terrific books were published that extolled the virtues of local antebellum architecture and associated families. Foremost of these was the Plantation Heritage of the SC Upcounty, but it was certainly not alone…

The recent From the Porch post, on struggling Carolina cities, was received with overwhelming response! It seems everyone thinks there must be a solution and one politician responded, that he too was certainly aware of the situation and felt just as strongly. So, change is inevitable but it seems every day, local values and traditions, are…

In 2017, several very talented individuals sat down and began reviewing just how to improve Roots and Recall’s homepage. Terms such as evolution, change, updated, and informative were all words used to express our desires for improvement and of course our priority, staying fresh and in-touch with the membership. So, changes such as the monthly…

On a drive through rural S.C., on my way to Edisto Island and later Daufuskie Island, S.C., I was reminded just how rural most of S.C. remains. Though thousands of families have abandoned their old farmsteads for urban living and progressive towns; in the upcountry such as Spartanburg, Rock Hill and Greenville, or in the…

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